A.A.P. and E.L.P. triangles on the Godsey reading

Cro-Magnon Karma: One Dude and his Body Image Issue, by Chris Godsey

Author: Chris Godsey is a professor of Composition at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. He is a Man, declared not to be a metro-sexual, and is concerned about his body image as well as mass media and it's effects in America.

Audience: The audience isn't specified, but it seems to be geared towards the average person living in modern society. It could be aimed at most any demographic, gender, and race but would have more of a relation to the younger part of society.

Purpose: To discuss how modern pop-culture is changing perceptions of masculinity, it's effects and show the authors first hand experiences, problems and concerns on the issue.


Ethos: As a university professor of composition it would be a given that he is a respectable writer. As a married manly-man living in a society where he is influenced by his proposed topic, he would also show to have credibility on the subject.

Logos: The logic in his paper is based on the idea that actors are buffer and toned, resulting in an increase of men going to the gym. He notes that a striking 3 million males have experimented at one point or another with black market steroid use, backing up his idea of media and entertainment having an effect on the population.

Pathos: He uses the emotions of his own anxieties of not feeling good enough, strong enough, or toned enough and how it affects his personal life. He discuss his problems and how they affect his relations with his wife and the frustrations that follow due to his personal esteem issues of inadequacies.